Author: Carmen Marcus

As the daughter of a Yorkshire Fisherman and Irish Mother, my writing brings together the visceral and the magical. My debut novel #How Saints Die was published with Harvill Secker in 2017. It won New Writing North's Northern Promise Award as a work in progress and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2018. My poetry has been commissioned by BBC Radio, The Royal Festival Hall and Durham Book Festival. As a child of an 80s council estate I am an advocate for working class writers and stories. I’m currently working on my first poetry collection The Book of Godless Verse and my next novel. I try to live up to the words of my first critic and primary school teacher ‘weird minus one house point.’

The Catch: My Dream Project

My dad, his brother and nephew out fishing in the Daisy Ellen The big news is that I’ve just landed my dream project! If you know anything about my stories you’ll know that the sea is the place I write from. I was raised as a fisherman’s daughter in Redcar, North Yorkshire, sucking on lobster... Continue Reading →

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Shameless Stories

When I was a teenager my favourite subject was English because it was the one place where the truth didn’t matter; where making things up was the point. I never felt the dread shame I did in History when it was Census Project time. Everyone had to fill in the occupations of their parents to... Continue Reading →

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Sea Rescue: Going Under and Surviving

Sunday 8th December 2019 For Words Weekend 4pm – 5pm Northern Rock Foundation Hall Sage Gateshead SLIDE 1: SEA RESCUE CARMEN MARCUS I’m Carmen Marcus, author of How Saints Die and I’m going to talk this windy afternoon about what it means to really ‘go under’. I’m going to be your guide under the sea... Continue Reading →

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